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July 2022

July 20, 2022

Of Light & Shadow: Disconnecting to Reconnect

There’s something about walking alone in nature and getting lost in your thoughts that is...

January 2022

January 14, 2022

Between Two Worlds: My Quiet Time

My quiet time, when all is still and cold outside, is about meditating. I've no...

June 2021

June 17, 2021

The Corner Crone: Midsummer Rains

As we tilt toward the longest day I find myself in a rainy season, pondering...

May 2021

May 07, 2021

The Corner Crone: An Altered State of Being

What magic waits in the forgotten places, in the overlooked spaces? Those pockets of “not...

March 2021

March 20, 2021

The Corner Crone: The Dancing Energy Exchange

How does your mindfulness about the energetic exchanges you make impact those exchanges? How does...

March 05, 2021

The Corner Crone: Ready or Not, Here Comes the Equinox!

As the Spring Equinox approaches it feels as if I need to hustle myself along—ready...

February 2021

February 17, 2021

Between Two Worlds: Dark Moon, Tarot, Facebook and Lunar Imbolc

Last week on the Dark Moon I finally decided to leave Facebook. Permanently. To release...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

The Balancing Path: Not All Meditations Are Created Equal

I have frequently seen people state that they hate meditation and it doesn’t work for...

August 2019

August 14, 2019

Between Two Worlds: A Greek Magickal Papyri Prayer – Rewritten

Ever since The Greek Magickal Papyri were written, change has been an everlasting battle between...

April 2019

April 17, 2019

Druid in the City: Sneezing Through Meditation, or How I Keep Trying

I can lose myself in my sewing, or music and interrupt negative thought patterns or...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

3 Pagans & A Cat: Ode’s Story of Love and Gods (and teeth)

This is a story that I tell myself, in a hundred variations, because there is...

March 08, 2018

The Other Side of the Hedge: The Formula of Mastery

What we need most is often the exact same thing that is hardest for us...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: Witches & Mages, Borderfolk at the Threshold

Drui and the Witch walk on the outside edge, between the wild and the village....

May 07, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Summon Yourself

It’s about impossible to get through a day without being pulled this way and that....

May 01, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Teachers & Students

With nothing but the intuition that there must be more, we enter a new land...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: The Ego Hides

The best mystics say proudly, “I’m not better than anybody else,” while the worst say,...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

The Cartomancer: Tarot for Dreams

Do you dream? I bet you do. Do you try to elucidate them? I would...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: What is a lamp? A Labyrinth?

Since the show Westworld stole my main analogy for mysticism, I thought I'd share the...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Star Made Witch: Guide to Traditional Witchcraft Daily Practices

Daily practice is a fulfilling form of devotion and discipline. A simple daily anchor to...

October 2016

October 22, 2016

The Path of She: Hecate and the Crossroads of Choice

“Time is running out.” Hecate says, “Be fearless. Choose love. By your choices, and those...

September 2016

September 11, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Gifts from the Heart – An Autumn-Spiced Guided Meditation

As autumn approaches I am increasingly aware of relationships that are functioning well, those that...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

The Cartomancer: Underground Smoke

The intuition about the beyond, that is not only instantly recognized but also embraced, leads...

May 09, 2016

Star Made Witch – Know Thyself

Perhaps the most pervasive and least understood advice in witchcraft is Know Thyself from the...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

The Path of She: A Beltane Meditation – Life-making with the Green Man

For everything there is a season, and Beltane is the time to embrace your life-making...

March 2016

March 12, 2016

The Path of She: Demeter and Your Bigness of Being, A Spring Equinox Meditation

Spring has arrived and Demeter awaits you, just as She has waited for Her daughter...

February 2016

February 03, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Devotional Techniques from the Heartbreak Trenches

Sometimes we need to take some time to honor our losses. In this post Rev....

January 2016

January 23, 2016

The Path of She: An Imbolc Meditation – Brigid and the Light and Shadow of Soul Work

Brigid leads you to Her scrying bowl, filled with the waters of Her holy well...

January 03, 2016

The Other Side of the Hedge: Why Can’t I F@^%!&G Meditate?

Over and over, I hear people talk about how they can’t meditate. They confess that...

December 2015

December 12, 2015

A Winter Solstice Meditation: Ereshkigal and the Great Below

Open yourself to the natural world energies of this longest night of the year and...

December 02, 2015

Dandelion Seeds: Push Your Emotional Reset Button with Devotionals

The holidays are hard. In between Black Friday and Solstice Vigil squeeze in some time...